Posted on Wednesday, November 10 2010 @ 14:07 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
GELID introduced the Rev. 2 Icy Vision, an updated VGA cooler that supports AMD's Radeon HD 6800 series and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580. The cooler features five heatpipes, 85 aluminium fins and two 92mm UV-reactive fans. It will be sold for around 46EUR ($55).
Thermal Solutions specialist GELID Solutions ensures the compatibility of its multi-award winning
“Rev. 2 ICY VISION” VGA Cooler on the latest graphic card of AMD™ (reference board of HD 6850 &
HD 6870) and Nvidia™ (reference board of GTX580).
The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” cooler contains 5 power heatpipes in a unique heatpipe constellation. The
heatpipes are interlaced into 85 optimized high-quality Aluminium fins. Together with a flat stack fin
soldered Copper base, they enable the most efficient heat transmission and dissipation from GPU
core in its class.
Besides the heatsink, two 92mm UV-reactive fans with 11 blades in S-shape generate 20% more air
flow than traditional fans. The fan contains a high-quality ball bearing to ensure a longer lifetime in
high temperature environments.
The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” is both CrossFire and SLI compatible on a number of cards. Screws were
optimized to enable a proper SLI in the 2nd
revision. To ensure a better cooling more Ram and
Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) heatsinks are created to cool down the components around the
GPU. The high performance GC-2 thermal compound is also included in the package.
The “Rev. 2 ICY VISION” VGA cooler is available now and has a MSRP of USD 55 or Euro 46.
This cooler is RoHS, WEEE conform and carries a 5 year warranty.
